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A Global Astronomy Event

Alessia Kirkland

In the seconds, hours and days after LIGO and Virgo detected gravitational waves from a neutron star collision on 17 August, some 70 gamma-ray, X-ray, optical and radio telescopes detected signals from the same event—kicking off the era of multi-messenger astronomy. Find out more at www.osa-opn.org/ligo.